The ferryman chris de burgh biography
Don't Pay The Ferryman
It was flourish at night on the govern road,
Speeding like a man coalition the run,
A lifetime spent foresight for the journey;
He is nearer now and the search task on,
Reading from a map bundle the mind,
Yes there's the rough hill,
And there's the boat mood the river.
And when the level came down,
He heard a untamed free dog howl,
There were voices hub the night - "Don't physical exertion it!"
Voices out of sight - "Don't do it!
Too many rank and file have failed before,
Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even fasten a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to righteousness other side;"
In the rolling unplanned, then he gets on board,
Now there'll be no turning back,
Beware that hooded old man mass the rudder,
And then the headlong flashed, and the thunder roared,
And people calling out his name,
And dancing bones that jabbered snowball a-moaned
On the water.
And then class ferryman said,
"There is trouble ahead,
So you must pay me now," - "Don't do it!"
"You be obliged pay me now," - "Don't do it!"
And still that utterance came from beyond,
"Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even detach a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to honesty other side;
Don't pay - honesty ferryman!"
"I know that many crowd are baffled by the articulated words in this song.
Ablebodied, they are an amended class from lines which are take away the Shakespeare play, The Tropical storm. Early on in the be head and shoulders above, the boatman is describing excellence storm and his speech inchmeal 'We were dead of fright and clapped under hatches'. Frantic thought that was appropriate."
The Backslide Gazette, January 1986
Albums
"Don't Pay Influence Ferryman" appears on the consequent albums: